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Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning Book

Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning
Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning, Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse.The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show th, Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning has a rating of 3 stars
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Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning, Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse.The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show th, Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning
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  • Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning
  • Written by author David I. Beaver
  • Published by Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, September 2008
  • Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse.The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show th
  • Sense and Sensitivity explores the semantic and pragmatic effects of focus in natural language discourse. The book concentrates on focus sensitivity, the remarkable dependency some words have on the effects of focus. An example is "only": compa
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1 Introduction 1

2 Intonation and Meaning 7

3 Three Degrees of Association: Quasi, Free, and Conventional 44

4 Compositional Analysis of Focus 80

5 Pragmatic Explanations of Focus 117

6 Soft Focus: Association with Reduced Material 142

7 Lacking Focus: Extraction and Ellipsis 160

8 Monotonicity and Presupposition 182

9 Exclusives: Facts and History 212

10 Exclusives: a Discourse Account 248

11 Conclusion 280

Bibliography 287

Index 301


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